Death watch: Lockerbie Bomber's health 'has not deteriorated' since his release.

Update: 5:45pm MST - The Daily Mail is reporting that the Lockerbie Bomber has been discharged from the hospital. (p.s. Now they tell us. US: We would have extradited Lockerbie Bomber rather than see him set free.

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It's a miracle, I tell you. A miracle! (/sarc)

The alive and kicking Lockerbie Bomber, happy and smiling, ensconced in the bosom of his family. --- >

From the Telegraph:

Megrahi, who is suffering terminal prostate cancer, was sent home to Libya to die after medical experts concluded in a report on July 30 he had just three months left to live. The time span was crucial because only prisoners with three months or less to survive are eligible for release on compassionate grounds.

Within three weeks of the medical examination by Professor Karol Sikora, one of Britain's leading cancer specialists, Megrahi was put on a plane and sent home to Tripoli to die.

But three months on from Prof Sikora's diagnosis, Megrahi is well enough to "walk and talk" and shows no sign of deterioration, according to a senior source involved in his release.

The source told The Sunday Telegraph: "His condition has not deteriorated in three months. He is pretty much in the same way as he was when this all started. He is just as he was. There is nothing that leads anyone to believe he is in any different condition to when he left Scotland."

Megrahi is still in the Tripoli Medical Centre where Scottish and UK authorities keep tabs on him via a weekly telephone call. He has not moved back into his home where the authorities have installed video conference equipment to use in monitoring him. (unh-huh. Like that's going to happen.)

(Do you think maybe the real reason he's alive and kicking because the docs got big bucks from Libya?)

Prof Sikora, who is the medical director of CancerPartnersUK in London, was one of three doctors who visited Megrahi in jail on July 28.

He was paid a one-day consultancy fee by the Libyan government to draw up a report delivered two days later. In an interview in September not long after Megrahi's release, Prof Sikora said he was initially "pessimistic" that the experts could say he would survive any less than a year. But Prof Sikora admitted that the Libyans had encouraged him to conclude that Megrahi had just three months to live following his examination.

"The figure of three months was suggested as being helpful [by the Libyans]," he said. "To start with I said it was impossible to do that but, when I looked at it, it looked as though it could be done – you could actually say that."

While one of the doctors in the team was apparently 'more vague' about putting a limit on Megrahi's life expectancy, a third doctor, Professor Ibrahim Sharif, a Libyan oncologist from the Tripoli Medical Centre, agreed Megrahi had 'about three months'.

< --- The Helpful Professor.

Professor Sikora sounds like the perfect candidate to pass medical judgment on this case. He's just been caught misstating his credentials for 5 years:

The cancer specialist is no stranger to media headlines. This year, he was formally disowned by Imperial College after it was revealed that his online C.V (published on his own website) stated that he was “Professor of Cancer Medicine and honorary Consultant Oncologist at Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London”. As it turned out, that wasn’t quite true.

Imagine that.